When she crouches for game, each little lion crouches also, and each one remains perfectly still until she springs, or signals them to come.

If she secures the prey, they all gorge themselves.

After the feast the mother takes her back trail, stepping in the tracks she made coming down the mountain.

And the cubs are very careful to follow suit, and not to leave marks of their trail in the soft snow.

No doubt this habit is practiced to keep their deadly enemies in ignorance of their existence.